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Arab Revolution and Social Media: The digital divide as a barrier to democracy
Written by Sara Elkamel
In the so-called transition to democracy, where thousands of digital activists lay on one side and millions of virtually illiterate citizens on the other, are knowledge gaps standing in the way of change? Despite being on the lower end of the digital divide, the Arab world hosted new media proliferation […]
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Public Private Partnerships – a Lifeline for Struggling Universities
Written by Anikó Mészáros
One unintentional yet potentially welcome consequence of the education reform in Hungary is the promotion of public-private partnerships (PPPs). In primary and secondary education the churches are taking over a lot of schools which hope for better financing through the takeover as was discussed in a previous Local View on Future Challenges. […]
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Death of a Reformer: The man who “modernized” France’s elite university
Written by Stephen Hartka
Richard Descoings, the former Director of France’s prestigious Sciences Po found dead in his New York hotel room April 2nd, left few indifferent in his decades-long crusade to reform French education. He was the driver behind the “modernization” of an archaic admissions system, leading to a far bigger, […]
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FutureChallenges.org en español
Written by Anneliese Guess
This page features a compilation of our Spanish-language content. Enjoy! Dark Red: Spanish is sole official language at the national level Blue: Spanish a co-official language Light Red: Spanish official in sub-national polities By Ichwan Palongengi (Data based on Map-Hispano.png on Wikipedia Project) [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons En búsqueda de […]
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Child Labour in Pakistan
Written by Shahzeb Younis
It was one of our regular nights out with friends when a 7 year old kid approached us to see if we were interested in buying balloons from him. When asked why he was working and not going to school, he shared a heart-rending story of how his parents were […]
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The OG provide a Welcome Break from Political Infighting
Written by Andreea Vasile
On August 5th, the Romanian gymnast Sandra Izbaşa won the Women’s Vault Final at the London Olympics 2012 (Bogdan Maran/BPA Images ) Year in, year out, they train up for to 12 hours a day, they run, they jump, they backflip. And the better they do it, the closer they […]
